The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories. Constance Fenimore Woolson

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       THE FRONT YARD

       NEPTUNE'S SHORE

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       A PINK VILLA

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       THE STREET OF THE HYACINTH

       I

       II

       A CHRISTMAS PARTY

       IN VENICE

THE FRONT YARD

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      "WELL, now, with Gooster at work in the per-dairy, and Bepper settled at last as help in a good family, and Parlo and Squawly gone to Perugia, and Soonter taken by the nuns, and Jo Vanny learning the carpenter's trade, and only Nounce left for me to see to (let alone Granmar, of course, and Pipper and old Patro), it doos seem, it really doos, as if I might get it done sometime; say next Fourth of July, now; that's only ten months off. 'Twould be something to celebrate the day with, that would; something like!"

The woman through whose mind these thoughts were passing was sitting on a low stone-wall, a bundle of herbs, a fagot of twigs, and a sickle laid carefully beside her. On her back was strapped a large deep basket, almost as long as herself; she had loosened the straps so that she could sit down. This basket was heavy; one could tell that from the relaxed droop of her СКАЧАТЬ